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Twitter’s Music App Is Real

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I do find this social-music space quite interesting. Specially if your music tastes are not mainstream. And visualizing the data would be really cool.

Hope they do a better job at it then with photos and videos, though; and focus on the social part.

Trying to make something not geographically restricted would be a huge bonus!

>Specially if your music tastes are not mainstream. And visualizing the data would be really cool.

Isn't this the exact point of Last.fm, the leader in this space for years?

There is a lot that Twitter can easily cross reference that would be more work for Last.fm

Also, Twitter has many more users. But I agree that those more enthusiastic towards music probably already use Last.fm

Mainstream is where the money is at, and I think Twitter is a for-profit company, not a charity.

Do we need another music application? We already have Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Google Play Music, Amazon, and more. What will this one bring to the party that the others haven't, besides deeper Twitter integration?

If it's good, then yes we need it. If it's bad, then no we don't. Pretty simple.

What will the app actually do? Anyone?

And thus Twitter became Myspace

It's funny, because reading that made me think, "and thus, Twitter added the only good thing about Myspace." Myspace had problems, but I never thought that their music offerings was one of them.

Kind of a strange addition...I'd like to see more fleshing out of the photo and video services it already has, as that kind of content fits in more with the concept of "tweeting" -- discrete bite size content created on the fly. Music tracks don't seem to jive as well, though I guess it'd be interesting to see, over time, the kind of tracks a given user listened (and tweeted about).

[insert joke about the reliability of that API]

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